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MONTANO, Marta Elena; SANABRIA-DIAGO, Olga Lucía; MANZANO, Ricardo  y  QUILINDO, Oswaldo. Biocultural route for the conservation of native and creole seeds in the indigenous territory of Puracé, Cauca. rev.udcaactual.divulg.cient. [online]. 2021, vol.24, n.1, e1771.  Epub 21-Abr-2021. ISSN 0123-4226.  https://doi.org/10.31910/rudca.v24.n1.2021.1771.

Seeking the conservation of traditional production systems in the Puracé reservation, implied identifying the main factors that have affected them and defining strategies that enable their conservation. In the reservation, the conservation effort is carried out through an organization in fact that belongs to the indigenous council, called custodians of seeds. For this reason, the work was focused on them, with whom workshops, interviews and field work were carried out that involved participant observation, ethnographies, ethnobotanical characterization and cartographic analysis, leading to establish the need to generate a biocultural route for the conservation of native seeds. and Creoles. 156 seeds were identified that were ethnoclassified, 90 for culinary use, 37 medicinal, 16 used for food and medicine, and 13 for other uses; The factors that affect conservation were grouped into 5 categories, the generational change is the main factor on which it is necessary to work is conservation, constituting the structuring axis of the Route that was proposed.

Palabras clave : Revitalization; Traditional Knowledge; Custodians of seeds.

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